Cecile Brunner are the perfect miniature roses, and it’s a sign that summer’s almost here when they start to flower. I was delighted this week when there were enough for me to be able to pick a bunch and bring them inside.
A friend who died had her birthday at Beltane, the beginning of November, and I always gave her a bunch of these roses, because that’s what her mother used to do.
When my brother died his former wife brought a bunch of these tiny roses to the funeral for me, because she remembered that they had grown at our childhood home. I have no memory of them there, but I love having them in our garden today. Ours were planted in 1995 and have flowered profusely ever since. With Covid now detected in Christchurch such signs of hope are even more precious.
These roses hold a memory
and promises of what will be
Ruth's Reflections 
I love this rose too – pretty and delicate. Not that delicate, though: despite hard pruning, my Cecile Brunner rose is growing back vigorously and flowering too! In the past, I’ve had to cut it back when it reached as high as the power lines. You have to admire it!
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Cecile certainly has determination. Mine regularly needs to be discouraged from climbing over the spouting and on to the roof.
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